New member of coaching staff added to Splendora ISD line-up

Published 11:00 pm, Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Brooke Guidry has recently been added to Splendora ISD’s coaching line-up and is looking forward to coaching for the community.

Brooke Guidry has recently been added to Splendora ISD’s coaching line-up and is looking forward to coaching for the community.

New member of coaching staff added to Splendora ISD line-up

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For the upcoming 2013-2014 school year, the Splendora Independent School District is welcoming a new face to their athletic program’s line-up.

Brooke Guidry, who has recently relocated to the Splendora area from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is the incoming junior high health teacher, as well as assistant volleyball coach and head softball coach.

“I have been around softball my entire life. I started playing when I was about 5 years old,” said Guidry.

Guidry originally started playing while attending school in the Dallas area before moving to a much smaller 2A school, where she played as a three-year letterman at a varsity level. After high school, she got a full scholarship to play ball at Western Texas College, where she played as third baseman and catcher.

She then attended West Texas A & M, where she again played ball as a catcher and third baseman.

Guidry’s first coaching job, which she received at age 22 when she was fresh out of college, was at Hightower High School, located in the Missouri City area. Her first year coaching brought the school one of their most successful records in the history of Hightower High School.

Upon relocating from Hightower High School, Guidry worked as assistant coach at a community college, where she helped lead her team to a conference win, which hadn’t happened in nearly 15 years prior.

“It was really a wonderful learning experience for me working at the college level, but whenever I got the call to come to Splendora High School, I was thrilled,” said Guidry.

Guidry has big plans for the softball team during the coming year, and is looking forward to getting to know the players, which she said have “tremendous talent,” and leading them to a winning season.

“Not every year will be a winner, but it’s very important in this sport to be able to rejuvenate and to adapt and overcome any obstacles that come your way,” said Guidry, who also has a few seasons under her belt that were less than stellar, but became a valuable learning opportunity in overcoming adversity and seasons of heartbreaking injury.

“I had one season where four out of five pitchers were injured. It just seemed that every time we played, there was another injury and that really is a difficult thing to overcome,” said Guidry, who recognizes that while not every season will be one for the record books, it is still always important to play your way through it.

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“I have always felt that as a coach it is very much about leading the pack by example. I have heard so many wonderful things about this organization and am honored to be part of this staff and this community,” said Guidry.

Of being in Splendora, she said, “We have so much wonderful talent and it’s a nice change to have such a wonderful community fan base to be surrounded by and to have a community that really cares about these kids and these teams.”